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Mexico: Zetas Drug Cartel Arranged Prison Break, Say Officials

More on the 21 foot tunnel prison break on the Mexico/US border. Officials say that the tunnel was around for months and it was unlikely that no one knew. New information indicates that many of the prisoners actually just walked out the front door and into waiting trucks, in an escape coordinated by one of the most dangerous drug cartels in Mexico.

From the article: “The director and 15 other staffers of a Mexican prison on the Texas border are being held under house arrest while authorities investigate whether they helped Mexico’s most violent drug cartel, the Zetas, break more than 130 inmates out of the prison during a daring daylight escape Monday.”